Vintage gaming

[Diligent]

Today a friend and I were hanging about and having a few drinks, when I realized: holy crap, I have an Atari 7800 and a collection of games. After an hour and a half of searching around my apartment an AC adapter for it was found, and some old school gaming commenced.
It took some work to get the two and a half decade old RF switch in the right position so that the signal actually reached the TV, but when it worked we were playing Robotron 2084 in glorious fuzzy low definition, and later cracked into some pac-man and Galaga.
I'm so happy that it still works, and I laugh in the face of the infamous red ring of death that we have to deal with today when this piece of plastic and circuits from 1986 is still in working order.
(Yes, there are more moving parts and more things happening in modern consoles, so they can be forgiven, but it's still a testament to a time when technology was designed to work and not break on you...)

Does anybody else have some vintage gaming systems they still like to crack out once in a while and play with? Maybe an Intellivision? A Colecovision? Perhaps an earlier Atari system like the 2600? And do you ever break it out for some nostalgic gaming? What's your favourite game from that era?

For the younger escapists, what do you consider "old school"? Is it the SNES? Maybe even the N64?

 

[Aisyah Fatihah]

Since I was born in 1997, I say the PS is pretty old school to me. And I never played any console from before the 5th generation gaming.

 

[Stammer]

My first gaming platform was the Game Boy Brick, with a Sega Genesis as a second. I haven't got a clue where the ol' brick is, but it's been ages since I've busted out the Genesis for Sonic or Mutant League Hockey.

However, I do still pop the N64 in every now and then to play games like Duke Nukem, Perfect Dark, Banjo-Kazooie, Smash Bros...

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

our sega genesis started to break down from wear and tear, so we sold it for a good 70 bucks at the time (which was 5 years ago, so not too shabby)

but my favorite game of all time on there was captain america and the avengers, best co op i have ever played as a kid, that game was so much damn fun!

 

[Savagezion]

Shit, this topic makes me feel old. My first system was the Atari 2600. This was how I got introduced to gaming:

I walked into my grandpas house and saw him doing something (playing pac-man) on his television that I didn't understand but I was totally captivated. Seeing a video game in a house on your T.V. was awesome. (I had only seen about 3-4 video games in public in my life at that time but was never allowed quarters to play.) I had to be around 3-4 because a couple years later Nintendo became a household name. At that same time, my grandpa's T.V. got fried, Atari was suspected as the culprit so he gave it and his game library (~25 games) to me and my brother when I was 5-6. My mom got us a small 13 inch black-and-white television and a gamer was born. A couple years later I got an NES and so on and so forth.

For the record, I am only 31. Being born in the beginning of the information age will make you feel old considering how much technology has progressed in the past couple decades.

 

[vxicepickxv]

Shit, this topic makes me feel old. My first system was the Atari 2600. This was how I got introduced to gaming:

I walked into my grandpas house and saw him doing something (playing pac-man) on his television that I didn't understand but I was totally captivated. Seeing a video game in a house on your T.V. was awesome. (I had only seen about 3-4 video games in public in my life at that time but was never allowed quarters to play.) I had to be around 3-4 because a couple years later Nintendo became a household name. At that same time, my grandpa's T.V. got fried, Atari was suspected as the culprit so he gave it and his game library (~25 games) to me and my brother when I was 5-6. My mom got us a small 13 inch black-and-white television and a gamer was born. A couple years later I got an NES and so on and so forth.

For the record, I am only 31. Being born in the beginning of the information age will make you feel old considering how much technology has progressed in the past couple decades.

Yeah, that sounds like a very similar story to how I started gaming, except the 2600 belongs to my parents.

Of course, I didn't really do any major gaming until my parents upgraded, giving me an Apple 2c. The system still works, but I don't think any of the disks do.

 

[Trilbi]

The original Gameboy...I still have Pokemon Yellow and I enjoy playing it sometimes

 

[Savagezion]

Forgot to mention that for my retro gaming now, I mostly stick to SNES. I might toy with the old NES from time to time, but not enough to really warrant it. The old Atari is around here somewhere. I don't really have much interest in hooking it up though. I would better remember it for what it was rather than what it is today.

Yeah, that sounds like a very similar story to how I started gaming, except the 2600 belongs to my parents.

Of course, I didn't really do any major gaming until my parents upgraded, giving me an Apple 2c. The system still works, but I don't think any of the disks do.

Yeah, I didn't start PC gaming until I was in my teenage years on our family's first PC, the 386 Tandy.

 

[Cogwheel]

Gameboy. The grey box kind.

It's actually older than I am by a year or two.


Oh, I also have a Dreamcast. Hardly vintage, but rare-ish.

 

[thefrizzlefry]

Yeah, for me (born in late '93) the SNES, N64 and PS1 is what I call old school.

 

[-Samurai-]

I still own the NES my mom got just before I was born, and every game and box and manual for every game with it. It's still in perfect working order.

Then I have an NES top-loader like the SNES. It works as well.

 

[droop99]

my vintage console is the ps. It has the best game ever hogs of war